Low intensity bombs rock pune, one injured

Pune:  Four low-intensity bomb blasts shook Pune on Wednesday evening injuring at least one person.
Two other bombs have been defused by the Anti-Terror Squad. All the bombs were placed within a kilometre.

Sources say wires connected with watches and detonators have been recovered from blast spots. The explosion were well planned, the sources added.

Sushil Kumar Shinde, who took over today as India’s Home Minister, was scheduled to be in the city tonight to preside over a prize-giving ceremony. He cancelled his plans at the last minute. “The blasts were of low-intensity. I was supposed to be at the Tilak Theatre, very near to where one of the blasts took place. At this moment, I cannot say anything more. It is now a matter of inquiry, ” he told reporters in Delhi.

The first three explosions took place near Dena Bank, Bal Gandharv theatre and a McDonalds outlet on the Jungli Maharaj Road, which is a popular hangout for the students in the city.

Pune police commissioner Gulabrao Pol has, however, ruled out a terror attack saying, “It is not terror, it is some mischief. It is low intensity blast and took place at three spot.”

While Pol described the explosions as an act of mischief but Union Home Secretary RK Singh said terror angle cannot be ruled out since it seems to be a planned attack.

According to the Home Secretary, a man allegedly carrying one of the bombs was injured in the explosions and has been taken into custody and is being interrogated, Singh said. He has been admitted to a local hospital.

The Pune police commissioner said the explosives carried by the injured man were kept in a cake box with sticky material, two detonators and a pencil cell.